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The Benefits of Living in a Fire Damaged House After It Has Been Restored

The Architecture Designs

However, there is a third option that many homeowners overlook: purchasing a fire damaged house and restoring it. While it may seem daunting to undertake the restoration process, there are numerous benefits to living in a fire-damaged house after it has been restored.

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The World’s Best Firms Are Finding New Ways To Conquer Under-Utilized Urban Areas for Public Green Space

Architizer

The renovation was begun and finished during the pandemic. The project takes a section of the river and rebuilds the two waterfront plots with recreational facilities and ecological restoration schemes. Thammasat University Urban Rooftop Farm aims to tackle global food shortage by utilizing the neglected spaces — rooftops.

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England’s first ever Modernist home asks for £3m

The Spaces

The present owners have restored the Modernist property to its former glory, reinstating original features such as glazed doors and ceiling light boxes, finishes, and stylings, as well as much of its original layout. By the 1960s, it had been saved from demolition but split into two.

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Newport Spotlight: Belmont Chapel Renovation

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The Chapel was neglected for over one hundred years, but the building is now undergoing a major restoration that began when several individuals uncovered the forgotten Chapel in 2016 and pledged to try to restore it. Fortunately records of the original designs still exist and are being utilized to restore them to their original beauty.

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Masquespacio founders create home and office where "everything revolves around play"

Deezen

Masquespacio restored the building's original hydraulic floor tiles Here, Masquespacio restored the building's decoratively patterned hydraulic floor tiles alongside its traditional doors and windows. Everything is a game of circles and triangles." There is also an island made from veiny marble and petite glazed tiles.

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Harding Huebner perches Meadow House on hillside in North Carolina

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The scheme also called for "restoring and healing the land that had been severely scarred". The kitchen has an operable skylight The layout features private areas on one side of the house – a primary bedroom, two bedrooms and an office – and a utility room and garage on the other. An operable, 14-foot-long (4.2-metre)

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THE HIRAMATSU, KYOTO // NIKKEN SEKKEI LTD

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A hotel plan in which part of the facilities will preserve and utilize a “Kyomachiya”, or Kyoto merchant’s townhouse, constructed in 1899 in Gion Festival’s Yamabokocho, where Kyoto’s history and culture live on. Text description provided by the architects. © NIKKEN SEKKEI LTD. © NIKKEN SEKKEI LTD.